• [Junior secondary homonym of Carebara nana Roger, 1863a.]
• Combination in Aeromyrma: Wheeler, 1922: 882.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 882; Arnold, 1926: 234; Weber, 1952a: 12 (in key); Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 299.
• Replacement name: Carebara pumilia Fischer et al., 2014

Obsolete combinations

• Oligomyrmex nanus

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 52:325-350. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.